[Simh] An abandoned piece of K&R C

[Leo Broukhis]

Bob,

The symbols may stem from BCPL, but the idea to use them for MIN and MAX is
specific to V7.

In V6, http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/c/c00.c
doesn't have them.

Leo

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:14:42 -0700
> Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom.com> wrote:
>
> > https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/4965/4025
> >
> >
> > In the UNIX V7 version of the C language, there were the /\ (min) and
> > the \/ (max) operators.
>
> As an aside, many will know that C is based on B, and B was based on
> BCPL.
>
> I used BCPL a *lot*. The logical AND operator in BCPL could be written
> as:
>
>   AND
>   &
>   /\
>
> and logical OR could be written as:
>
>   LOGOR
>   |
>   \/
>
> Perhaps someone decided it would be confusing.
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